If there's one country whose metal scene has particularly caught my interest in recent years, it's Finland. Facilitated primarily through Svart Records, the country's underground is alive and active, with bands ranging from the groovy (Domovoyd, Altar Of Betelgeuze), the eerie (Tyranny, Dark Buddha Rising), and the outright bizarre (Oranssi Pazuzu, Candy Cane). Relatively new on the scene are Kuolemanlaakso, death doomsters here to shatter concrete with their heaviness and soothe minds with their melodies.

Really? I got the impression that this style of music was very Gothic, but maybe that's just me. Whatever, it's still an excellent album.

Only spun this album once, but I can't recall hearing gothic in this. Just death doom metal and one weird folky track (I was really surprised by that one). You probably have the wrong idea of what gothic metal is...

Written by LeKiwi on 11.07.2014 at 04:26Not a speck of prog in this. Not sure what you're all on about.

Initially the band style was set to extreme progressive metal or something similar, so a lot of the conversation here is about how that wasn't accurate and thus, the band style is now more appropriate.

Initially the band style was set to extreme progressive metal or something similar, so a lot of the conversation here is about how that wasn't accurate and thus, the band style is now more appropriate.

I was just referring to the fact that some users thought I would think this would have prog